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Title: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Vlk on November 04, 2007, 07:46:23 PM: Hi all,

Last update: November 10

Anyone who's experiencing problems with 4.7.1074 is now encouraged to install the new pre-release version (4.7.1083) which is supposed to fix the issues. For details on the 1.4.1083 build please see http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=31426.0

Thanks
Vlk
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: igor on November 04, 2007, 08:53:10 PM: I corrected the path to copy the file to; it should be Windows\System32\drivers, not just Windows\System32
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Vlk on November 04, 2007, 09:13:07 PM: Quote from: igor on November 04, 2007, 08:53:10 PM
I corrected the path to copy the file to; it should be Windows\System32\drivers, not just Windows\System32

Of course. Sorry for that.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: RejZoR on November 04, 2007, 11:04:56 PM: I'm using Vista Home Premium 32bit and everything is working just fine. Hm...
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Lisandro on November 05, 2007, 12:58:37 AM: Quote from: RejZoR on November 04, 2007, 11:04:56 PM
I'm using Vista Home Premium 32bit and everything is working just fine. Hm...
Me too...
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Phant0m`` on November 05, 2007, 02:47:26 PM: Hi,

I'm using Avast! Home v4.7.1074 under Windows Vista 64-bit, and everything is still working perfectly. I'm curious though, what are the changes in this version? avast! 4 Home/Professional Revision History only details up-to version 4.7.1043.

Regards,
Phant0m``
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Lisandro on November 05, 2007, 03:27:30 PM: Quote from: Phant0m`` on November 05, 2007, 02:47:26 PM
I'm using Avast! Home v4.7.1074 under Windows Vista 64-bit, and everything is still working perfectly. I'm curious though, what are the changes in this version? avast! 4 Home/Professional Revision History only details up-to version 4.7.1043.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=31167.msg258831#msg258831
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Vlk on November 05, 2007, 06:21:11 PM: Yet another build of the driver has now been posted (05-11). If the previous driver didn't solve the issue, please go with this new one.

Cheers
Vlk
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: madoverclocker on November 05, 2007, 06:34:09 PM: Quote from: Vlk on November 05, 2007, 06:21:11 PM
Yet another build of the driver has now been posted (05-11). If the previous driver didn't solve the issue, please go with this new one.

Cheers
Vlk

Hi Vlk

This build seems to have resolved my Raid issues, thanks for your help.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Vlk on November 05, 2007, 06:37:08 PM: Excellent news, thanks for the ultra-fast feedback.

BTW a new build of avast (containing this fix) will be released pretty soon (this week).

Cheers
Vlk
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Vlk on November 06, 2007, 06:46:48 PM: And, again, yet another build of the driver has now been posted (06/11). If the previous drivers didn't solve the issue, please use this new one.

Hopefully, this one will be the final.

Cheers
Vlk
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: jjtest on November 08, 2007, 06:35:47 AM: Wow...you have NO idea what you put me through the last couple of days. Both my 32-bit Vista Home Premium machines, one HP desktop with Intel processors, one Toshiba laptop with AMD... were both rendered basically useless. Virus scans, system restores.... GRRRRRRR! :(

Glad I found this thread tonight... sure looks like I have my HP server back... now to test the Toshiba...

So.... what was it with that little 45Kb file that wreaked so much havoc with Vista?!?

P.S. Thanks for the fix. I feel better now. I will let you know how the Toshiba goes. You should put the title of this thread in BLINKING BOLD TYPE...
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: RejZoR on November 08, 2007, 04:11:35 PM: It's a system driver, meaning that little file can indeed cause many problems.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: ghmiller on November 08, 2007, 08:46:09 PM: Hi,
I just installed your new driver and it seems to be working fine. Opening Navigator used to take 1 sec, installed Avast, then it took 15 seconds to start, installed your new driver and now it takes 3 seconds. Other programs like Mail went from several minutes to start to 3 seconds when Avast is running.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Kagoo on November 10, 2007, 05:20:04 AM: Thanks guys, the updated driver did the trick!! Good thing only my laptop has Vista, Xp and an old Win2K system running fine.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: jojo1 on November 11, 2007, 05:10:35 PM: I installed the version 4.7.1074 and I have the following problem AppHangB1.
Where can I find the version 4.7. 1083
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: XMAS on November 11, 2007, 05:29:22 PM: Quote from: jojo1 on November 11, 2007, 05:10:35 PM
I installed the version 4.7.1074 and I have the following problem AppHangB1.
Where can I find the version 4.7. 1083
You can find instructions on how to install the new beta HERE (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=31426.msg261586#msg261586) ;)
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: jojo1 on November 11, 2007, 06:04:16 PM: Thank You. I installed it. It seem work without problems on my computer (vista home premium basic)
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Bumm on November 11, 2007, 07:52:48 PM: I had terrible problems to launch programs. Launching was slow and during the process even the mouse circle cursor vanished and the computer did not show any sign of life. Launching of Firefox took about 30s to 1 minute. I had the problems after the last Program update of Avast. Stopping all providers improved dramatically and switching them back on made it as bad as before.

Now I installed version 4.7.1083 and it seems to be much better. Thanks!

I use Vista Prof. on a Centrino Duo Notebook with Core 2 CPU T7400 2.17GHz with 2G RAM
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Lisandro on November 12, 2007, 01:29:13 AM: Bumm, this is exactly one of the corrections that the new beta tries to do.
Welcome to forums. Thanks for reporting.
Feel free to come back any time you need help you just to change experiences 8)
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: jojo1 on November 12, 2007, 09:08:32 AM: the problem I met with the version 4.7.1074 was the same described by Bumm. The installation of beta version solved this problem
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: pjamedia on November 14, 2007, 10:52:47 PM: Can I add to this post that the 4.7.1074 issues don't just affect Vista, they also affect XP x64

Thanks,
Paul A
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Vlk on November 15, 2007, 02:22:33 PM: Quote from: pjamedia on November 14, 2007, 10:52:47 PM
Can I add to this post that the 4.7.1074 issues don't just affect Vista, they also affect XP x64

But the 1083 beta build solves them, right?

Cheers
Vlk
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Gswiss on November 16, 2007, 08:13:26 PM: I'm running Home 4.7.1074 under XP-SP2. When the Web shield is activated, I lose my connection with the Web. If I close it down everything works fine. This is not the case with 4.7.1043 which I am running on another pc.

I'll try 1085 ay suggested.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Gswiss on November 17, 2007, 08:31:13 PM: 1085 appears to have solved things.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Lisandro on November 19, 2007, 07:04:01 PM: Quote from: Gswiss on November 17, 2007, 08:31:13 PM
1085 appears to have solved things.
Yeah, no troubles with it in Vista.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Snowie on November 30, 2007, 08:20:51 AM: not running Vista bit I have a windows 64-bit system and running XP pro 64-bit and having major virtual memory issues ever since i installed avast pro 4.7.1074 and all my apps are taking longer to load and run and I have major system lag issues when I play my game Anarchy Online unless I reboot before I log in to play. This was never an issue until I went from the free trial to Avast pro addition. Maybe need help witht he settings or?
only errors i get are related to quickbooks or windows office with this software.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Lisandro on November 30, 2007, 12:40:04 PM: Quote from: Snowie on November 30, 2007, 08:20:51 AM
I have major system lag issues when I play my game Anarchy Online unless I reboot before I log in to play. This was never an issue until I went from the free trial to Avast pro addition.
The trial version is identical of the Pro version. If you buy the Pro version and add the key, nothing should change. Otherwise, if you come from free to Pro version, the Script Blocker provider will be added. Is there any error displayed in the screen? What is lag issue for you: delays, when they occur?, if you disable avast do they disappear?, which other security programs are you using?
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Snowie on December 01, 2007, 12:15:28 AM: microsoft has their own security porgrams that run at the same time and we have not recieved any error messages. We are running XP Pro for 64-bit on a 64-bit system-AMD dual and we have 435G remaining on HD and 2G RAM. We went from free software and bought the pro for 2 yrs., so the script blocker was added in. I get a system message that our virtual memory is low, not like an error message, just a warning to close some aps which was never an issue until we bought Avast pro. Seems to me there is a huge memory leak? The lag issues occur if our system is not rebooted every day and still I am seeing some in my game that i didn't have before. Yes, lag issues go away after I disable avast pro.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Vlk on December 02, 2007, 11:09:27 AM: Snowie, I'm not sure I'm following you. Have you tried installing the latest beta (as suggested in the first post of this thread)? If so, did it make any difference?
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Tinania on December 02, 2007, 03:20:09 PM: I've got a biiig problem!

I got a new Computer with Vista. At Home I've got XP on my computer and Avast runs perfect... now my problem is... I installed avast! 4 Home - GERMAN on my new Computer (with Vista) and hardly Avast is installed my Internet Explorer and my windows mail doesn't run....
First when I abort some providers (web-security, outlook/exchange and internet mail) my internet Explorer and my windows mail does run again!
So I don't know what I should/could do!!? ???
please help!
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: essexboy on December 02, 2007, 03:22:29 PM: Have you allowed Avast through your firewall ? What firewall are you using
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Tinania on December 02, 2007, 03:26:07 PM: the windows firewall...

edit:
and I saw I've got also the mcaffee firewall on, but I want to uninstall Mcaffee, when avast is running!
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: essexboy on December 02, 2007, 03:34:16 PM: Check this page out for the uninstall tool http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=107083&lc=4105&partner then reboot and let us know how it goes
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: Tinania on December 02, 2007, 03:34:59 PM: okay! I try! thx

Edit: Now... it runs.....
hmm.. why didn't I do this before... *g*
anyway thanks :D
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: jlarson218 on December 02, 2007, 03:47:32 PM: I have 2 vista Ultimate 32bit PCs, on one 4.7.1074 works fine, on the 2nd PC Security Center does not recogize Avast or Defender. The 4.7.1096 does not correct this issue, any help appreciated.
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: essexboy on December 02, 2007, 03:48:55 PM: Quote from: Tinania on December 02, 2007, 03:34:59 PM
okay! I try! thx

Edit: Now... it runs.....
hmm.. why didn't I do this before... *g*
anyway thanks :D
Here to help ;D
Title: Re: ** For avast 4.7.1074 Vista users who are having issues **
Post by: blueRidgeMtns on December 02, 2007, 05:30:56 PM: Dell Dimension Desktop
Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit)
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz
RAM 2 gigs

THANK YOU! I installed 4.7.1074 yesterday (I don't know why I didn't pick it up sooner) and immediately noticed that it took a long time for my apps to launch. I'm now on 4.7.1096 and things are back to normal.

I'm glad you've got that topic posted at the top of the forum. I agree with someone who posted earlier who said it ought to be in big bold red letters flashing.

I hope one of these beta versions is pushed out to users soon. Probably many Vista users are experiencing this and don't know the cause.

Thanks again!